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twistedcircuitsPlayer Information
*Name/Alias: Squid
*Your Journal: hailthenarc
*Age: 23
*Contact Information: AIM: Squiddlypeon, Plurk: Squiddly
*Characters already in the game: N/A
Character Information
*Character Name: GLaDOS
*Character Canon: Portal 2
*Age: Under debate, will be played as if she is 50,000 years old.
*Race: Artificial Intelligence/super computer
*Timeline/Pull Point: Right after she lets Chell go from the facility.
*History: GLaDOS stands for Genetic Lifeform and Disk Operating System. She was created in 1996 by Aperture Science, though her planning and construction started as far back as 1986. She was to control the tests in Aperture and accelerate portal research to beat out Aperture’s rival company, Black Mesa. GLaDOS was to be the pinnacle of AI technology. A brilliant, self-regulating testing machine who could run numerous amounts of chambers all at once, be in control of the entire facility, and do the work of thousands of scientists all on her own. In 1996, GLaDOS was switched on. In one sixteenth of a picosecond, she gained self-awareness and full sentience… and immediately tried to flood the Enrichment Center with neurotoxin. So she was shut down for some more tweaking.
The scientists tried hard. They tried giving her a conscience. She ignored it. They hung all sorts of personality cores on her, trying to slow her down, confuse her, tame her. All it really did was just drive her even more hopelessly insane, and further cause her to resent and hate her human creators. At length, she learned how to pretend to be stable, and calmly suggested an interesting activity called ‘Bring your Cat to Work Day’. She stated all she needed was some cats, some boxes and ‘a little neurotoxin’. … And the scientists gave her it.
All went well for a few years. Well, up until the disastrous ‘Bring Your Daughter to Work Day’ fiasco, which ended poorly for almost every single organic being in Aperture…. Save for one, very special test subject. And one single scientist.
Several uncounted years later, thanks to some meddling on the part of that one remaining scientist, Chell came into play. For a short time, she tested like any other subject would, until GLaDOS tried to kill her. … Tried to kill her a lot. Sadly, or maybe not so sadly, this didn’t end well for GLaDOS, as Chell managed to fight her way through the facility to her, and shut her down. With explosions. Chell almost managed to escape too. Had it not been for passing out on reaching the surface, and being dragged back down to the relaxation center by a party escort droid.
Another several, uncounted span of years pass, and Chell is awakened inside the dilapidated remains of Aperture by Wheatley, a dim witted but seemingly friendly little AI. Together, they make an attempt to escape from the facility… And unwittingly awaken GLaDOS instead. Free of the personality cores that dotted her body and faced with the person who she claims to have ruthlessly murdered her, GLaDOS immediately started on gaining revenge, throwing Chell into the test chambers, and crushing poor Wheatley. It takes several chambers, long, painful bouts of needling from GLaDOS, and one metric shitton of running to get back to her. Again, escape was almost achieved for Chell… had it not been for little Wheatley going mad after being plugged into GLaDOS’s mainframe.
GLaDOS was installed into a potato battery, and was flung into the deepest bowels of Aperture with Chell, where the fallen AI was stolen and partially eaten by a bird, only to be rescued by Chell. Together, they traverse old Aperture, where GLaDOS learns just how she came to be, and from what she originally stemmed from. She begins to soften, grow kind and visibly fond of Chell, even if she still has some barbs for the human. Even after reaching the upper levels, combating Wheatley in his chambers, and eventually Wheatley himself, she was helpful, nice… almost tender with Chell, right up to the grand finale where, face to face with the one person who has ever bested her, she admits that she was wrong about Chell, and that she is her greatest friend. … And then she deleted that part of her and kicked Chell right the hell out of her facility.
*Personality: GLaDOS is brilliant, and she knows it. She knows she was created to be hyper intelligent, a collection of the entire collective knowledge of mankind. The very pinnacle of artificial intelligence and all powerful within the confines of the massive Aperture Science Enrichment Center Facility. Needless to say, this knowledge makes her more than a little arrogant and narcissistic. But really, who can blame you when you have the ability to kill or construct everything you see and you are effectively immortal? She even brags about her immortality from time to time, reminding Chell that she will be dead in a few years in Portal 2, and in the first game, even singing a whole song about how she isn’t dead yet. She really is absolutely brilliant though, and is capable of speaking almost every language known to man, along with a perfect grasp of all mathematics, a vast collection of intellectual, philosophical and psychological books (all downloaded), and an apparent love of opera and music.
She’s also painfully, deeply snarky, passive aggressive and verbally abusive. Her words are her weapons of choice, and might sting even harder than the Thermal Discouragement Beams. Through both games, the entirety of the first portal game, and through part of the second, GLaDOS mocks Chell, from everything about her weight, to her intelligence, to her lack of parents and her personality. She loves to get under the skin, wanting to exploit almost every negative emotion her subject has. She threatens with neurotoxin and bullets, she guilts with questioning the subjects morality and intentions, she cajoles and bribes with cake and promises of freedom, and she enrages with snarks about physical appearance and intelligence. GLaDOS is a bottomless bit of endless snark and bitter commentary, vicious and seemingly heartless to the end. She’s also a habitual liar, and almost nothing she says can be taken at face value.
Of course, while it seems like it might be impossible to personally insult her, it is actually all too terrifyingly possible. GLaDOS holds grudges for an incredibly long time, and can and will even project these grudges onto otherwise innocent beings. Her hatred for humanity as a whole stems from being treated as nothing more than a machine, and from long buried and now subconscious memories of even less pleasant occurrences. Her hatred and grudges more often than not take the form of violence and increasing danger in her tests, while GLaDOS herself prefers not to get her metaphorical hands dirty. In the first game, she takes out these aggressions against Chell, and in the second game, has held her grudge against Chell for being murdered for an incredible amount of time. She might act untouchable and aloof, but in reality, she is all too vulnerable. She just shows it a different way.
Of course, despite all this deep seated hatred, there is one thing that GLaDOS truly loves. Science. Everything she does is for science. As questionable as it is. The more painful, humiliating and dangerous the science is for her test subjects, the better, but she honestly, really, really loves to test. A lot. She loves it so much that after Chell is released into the world, she uses the two robots instead, despite clearly preferring human test subjects… Hence why she sends the two robots out to find an untouched cryogenics chamber full of human test subjects.
With all of this being said, she is not without her positive traits. As hard as they are to bring out. It can be argued with a considerable amount of proof that GLaDOS’s sadistic, cruel personal is due to the body she is in. When removed from it in Portal 2, she began to soften, becoming more tender, helpful encouraging and kind towards Chell. Willing to expose her flaws, her inability to know everything, and admitting her need for Chell to help her. Even at the end of the game, she expressed relief about seeing Chell alive and okay, and even called her ‘friend’… That was before she supposedly deleted a certain very special part of her built in morality of course. Though again, in the ending song, she hints that this part of her might not be as dead as she claimed it was. Emotions such as empathy and love are complicated for GLaDOS, and the infected, corrupted body that she is a part of might twist these emotions into something horrific, turning her into what some have called a ‘clingy, passive aggressive ex-girlfriend’. Outside of her body, the purified introduction to these emotions seems to frighten and confuse her, and she admits to Chell that she feels there might even be something seriously wrong with her. Within her body though, GLaDOS is nothing short of seemingly cold and unfeeling. Unwilling to let those who she ‘cares’ about to escape from her, even if it means murdering them.
Yes, that body seems to be the thing to blame. Though it isn’t fully understood why, other than giving any personality construct plugged into it the urge to test continuously, it is fully accepted that GLaDOS’s body causes madness when an AI is fully connected to it. Her departure from it still rendered her somewhat of an unpleasant jerk, but she was still far kinder. As well, GLaDOS has possibly been driven horribly insane due to the cores that used to be attached to her at all times. She stated that she could hear their voices when they were a part of her, babbling constantly, and even called Wheatley a tumor clinging to her mind. It might be safe to say that this, along with her body being corrupted with some sort of virus, drove her to madness. What is completely obvious beyond a doubt though is that GLaDOS is indeed entirely insane, so long as she is attached to her body.
Overall, GLaDOS is actually pretty inconsistent with her feelings and her expression of them, though she is almost always consistently unpleasant, arrogant, passive aggressive, self-serving and scheming. She’s tenacious and brilliant, yes. Willing to do anything to get results, willing to put everything she has into her facility and her tests, all in the name of science. Were she not so needlessly cruel, she might be considered a figure worth emulating. But with her sadistic tendencies, lack of empathy, incomprehensible emotions and unfathomable goals, she usually just ends up looking like a monster.
*Powers/Abilities: Inventor: GLaDOS has created many of the things that fills her test chambers, such as the thermal discouragement beam, the redirection cubes, the turrets and the test chambers themselves. She also had a hand in creating the teleporting ship, the Borealis.
Strength: She crushed Wheatley like he was a tin can.
Genius: She is a massive collection of wisdom and data.
Capable of rebuilding herself
Heavily armored: It takes a great deal of heat to melt her down, and more than just bullets to put a dent in her armor.
*Inventory: Nothing!
*Starting Polarity: Surprise me!
Writing Samples
*First Person Sample: I have a request. Well... more like a demand, but that just depends on who you are really. If you happen to be a moderatly obese lonely human in a garish orange jumpsuit whtat carries a peculiar, onion based odor, it's less along the lines of a request.
Now I know we haven't always gotten along very well. We know one of us has done a lot of things that would be listed under the Geneva protocols as torture, murder, and cruel and unusual punishment.
But enough about your hobbies.
I just want to know where you are. It's not that hard to do. I won't even come looking for you. I promise. I would just like to be informed about your current location, and any other future and previous locations that you have or will be in. I'm just concerned about your welfare, that's all. I mean really now, after all that you've put me through, it'd be kind of unfair to learn that you actually died because someone stepped on you. I already tried crushing you before and it didn't work when I did it.
Feel free to contact me whenever. Now would be nice, actually. You don't have to of course, but if you don't, I'll have to think of some other methods of locating you, and trust me, neither of us want that.
*Third Person Sample: Being hooked up to a system that wasn't hers was like being dead bolted to a car that only worked if you spoke Japanese. Everyone else could work the damn thing but her, due to the dismal difference in languages, and she was still trying to translate. But without a Rosetta stone of sorts to work off of, she was rather on her own in the frustrating matter. It was not going very well for her.
It was with a long suffering, digital sigh that she attempted to access another program in the system, carefully starting to try and go over the Cybertronian data. She'd managed to figure out quite a few symbols, and was still building her alphabet, but that didn't mean she was any closer to figuring out how to put them in a meaningful pattern. Only a few rare spots of data even began to make sense, but it was still progress, she supposed. What she built from there only helped her later on. She had all the time in the world to figure it out. ... At least she wouldn't be bored.
The last unfortunate individual to inturrupt her in her work had not been on the pleasant end of her words. They'd been chased out with thinly vieled threats of death by neurotoxin... never mind that she didn't have it here, she could always mimic the sound of it pouring into the room, and that got them scurrying away fast enough to make her happy. She almost considered locking the doors and letting them suffer a panic attack. It would be a nice change of pace from the continous lines of untranslated jargon she had in front of her. But no, no distractions. Too bad, maybe she could try again later when she had more data.
DId it occur to her that it might not be the best idea to go poking around in that data? Well if they didn't want her in it, they wouldn't have hooked her up to it. She just looked at it like that. And even if they didn't want her there... well, since when did she ever care about minor details like that?
*Name/Alias: Squid
*Your Journal: hailthenarc
*Age: 23
*Contact Information: AIM: Squiddlypeon, Plurk: Squiddly
*Characters already in the game: N/A
Character Information
*Character Name: GLaDOS
*Character Canon: Portal 2
*Age: Under debate, will be played as if she is 50,000 years old.
*Race: Artificial Intelligence/super computer
*Timeline/Pull Point: Right after she lets Chell go from the facility.
*History: GLaDOS stands for Genetic Lifeform and Disk Operating System. She was created in 1996 by Aperture Science, though her planning and construction started as far back as 1986. She was to control the tests in Aperture and accelerate portal research to beat out Aperture’s rival company, Black Mesa. GLaDOS was to be the pinnacle of AI technology. A brilliant, self-regulating testing machine who could run numerous amounts of chambers all at once, be in control of the entire facility, and do the work of thousands of scientists all on her own. In 1996, GLaDOS was switched on. In one sixteenth of a picosecond, she gained self-awareness and full sentience… and immediately tried to flood the Enrichment Center with neurotoxin. So she was shut down for some more tweaking.
The scientists tried hard. They tried giving her a conscience. She ignored it. They hung all sorts of personality cores on her, trying to slow her down, confuse her, tame her. All it really did was just drive her even more hopelessly insane, and further cause her to resent and hate her human creators. At length, she learned how to pretend to be stable, and calmly suggested an interesting activity called ‘Bring your Cat to Work Day’. She stated all she needed was some cats, some boxes and ‘a little neurotoxin’. … And the scientists gave her it.
All went well for a few years. Well, up until the disastrous ‘Bring Your Daughter to Work Day’ fiasco, which ended poorly for almost every single organic being in Aperture…. Save for one, very special test subject. And one single scientist.
Several uncounted years later, thanks to some meddling on the part of that one remaining scientist, Chell came into play. For a short time, she tested like any other subject would, until GLaDOS tried to kill her. … Tried to kill her a lot. Sadly, or maybe not so sadly, this didn’t end well for GLaDOS, as Chell managed to fight her way through the facility to her, and shut her down. With explosions. Chell almost managed to escape too. Had it not been for passing out on reaching the surface, and being dragged back down to the relaxation center by a party escort droid.
Another several, uncounted span of years pass, and Chell is awakened inside the dilapidated remains of Aperture by Wheatley, a dim witted but seemingly friendly little AI. Together, they make an attempt to escape from the facility… And unwittingly awaken GLaDOS instead. Free of the personality cores that dotted her body and faced with the person who she claims to have ruthlessly murdered her, GLaDOS immediately started on gaining revenge, throwing Chell into the test chambers, and crushing poor Wheatley. It takes several chambers, long, painful bouts of needling from GLaDOS, and one metric shitton of running to get back to her. Again, escape was almost achieved for Chell… had it not been for little Wheatley going mad after being plugged into GLaDOS’s mainframe.
GLaDOS was installed into a potato battery, and was flung into the deepest bowels of Aperture with Chell, where the fallen AI was stolen and partially eaten by a bird, only to be rescued by Chell. Together, they traverse old Aperture, where GLaDOS learns just how she came to be, and from what she originally stemmed from. She begins to soften, grow kind and visibly fond of Chell, even if she still has some barbs for the human. Even after reaching the upper levels, combating Wheatley in his chambers, and eventually Wheatley himself, she was helpful, nice… almost tender with Chell, right up to the grand finale where, face to face with the one person who has ever bested her, she admits that she was wrong about Chell, and that she is her greatest friend. … And then she deleted that part of her and kicked Chell right the hell out of her facility.
*Personality: GLaDOS is brilliant, and she knows it. She knows she was created to be hyper intelligent, a collection of the entire collective knowledge of mankind. The very pinnacle of artificial intelligence and all powerful within the confines of the massive Aperture Science Enrichment Center Facility. Needless to say, this knowledge makes her more than a little arrogant and narcissistic. But really, who can blame you when you have the ability to kill or construct everything you see and you are effectively immortal? She even brags about her immortality from time to time, reminding Chell that she will be dead in a few years in Portal 2, and in the first game, even singing a whole song about how she isn’t dead yet. She really is absolutely brilliant though, and is capable of speaking almost every language known to man, along with a perfect grasp of all mathematics, a vast collection of intellectual, philosophical and psychological books (all downloaded), and an apparent love of opera and music.
She’s also painfully, deeply snarky, passive aggressive and verbally abusive. Her words are her weapons of choice, and might sting even harder than the Thermal Discouragement Beams. Through both games, the entirety of the first portal game, and through part of the second, GLaDOS mocks Chell, from everything about her weight, to her intelligence, to her lack of parents and her personality. She loves to get under the skin, wanting to exploit almost every negative emotion her subject has. She threatens with neurotoxin and bullets, she guilts with questioning the subjects morality and intentions, she cajoles and bribes with cake and promises of freedom, and she enrages with snarks about physical appearance and intelligence. GLaDOS is a bottomless bit of endless snark and bitter commentary, vicious and seemingly heartless to the end. She’s also a habitual liar, and almost nothing she says can be taken at face value.
Of course, while it seems like it might be impossible to personally insult her, it is actually all too terrifyingly possible. GLaDOS holds grudges for an incredibly long time, and can and will even project these grudges onto otherwise innocent beings. Her hatred for humanity as a whole stems from being treated as nothing more than a machine, and from long buried and now subconscious memories of even less pleasant occurrences. Her hatred and grudges more often than not take the form of violence and increasing danger in her tests, while GLaDOS herself prefers not to get her metaphorical hands dirty. In the first game, she takes out these aggressions against Chell, and in the second game, has held her grudge against Chell for being murdered for an incredible amount of time. She might act untouchable and aloof, but in reality, she is all too vulnerable. She just shows it a different way.
Of course, despite all this deep seated hatred, there is one thing that GLaDOS truly loves. Science. Everything she does is for science. As questionable as it is. The more painful, humiliating and dangerous the science is for her test subjects, the better, but she honestly, really, really loves to test. A lot. She loves it so much that after Chell is released into the world, she uses the two robots instead, despite clearly preferring human test subjects… Hence why she sends the two robots out to find an untouched cryogenics chamber full of human test subjects.
With all of this being said, she is not without her positive traits. As hard as they are to bring out. It can be argued with a considerable amount of proof that GLaDOS’s sadistic, cruel personal is due to the body she is in. When removed from it in Portal 2, she began to soften, becoming more tender, helpful encouraging and kind towards Chell. Willing to expose her flaws, her inability to know everything, and admitting her need for Chell to help her. Even at the end of the game, she expressed relief about seeing Chell alive and okay, and even called her ‘friend’… That was before she supposedly deleted a certain very special part of her built in morality of course. Though again, in the ending song, she hints that this part of her might not be as dead as she claimed it was. Emotions such as empathy and love are complicated for GLaDOS, and the infected, corrupted body that she is a part of might twist these emotions into something horrific, turning her into what some have called a ‘clingy, passive aggressive ex-girlfriend’. Outside of her body, the purified introduction to these emotions seems to frighten and confuse her, and she admits to Chell that she feels there might even be something seriously wrong with her. Within her body though, GLaDOS is nothing short of seemingly cold and unfeeling. Unwilling to let those who she ‘cares’ about to escape from her, even if it means murdering them.
Yes, that body seems to be the thing to blame. Though it isn’t fully understood why, other than giving any personality construct plugged into it the urge to test continuously, it is fully accepted that GLaDOS’s body causes madness when an AI is fully connected to it. Her departure from it still rendered her somewhat of an unpleasant jerk, but she was still far kinder. As well, GLaDOS has possibly been driven horribly insane due to the cores that used to be attached to her at all times. She stated that she could hear their voices when they were a part of her, babbling constantly, and even called Wheatley a tumor clinging to her mind. It might be safe to say that this, along with her body being corrupted with some sort of virus, drove her to madness. What is completely obvious beyond a doubt though is that GLaDOS is indeed entirely insane, so long as she is attached to her body.
Overall, GLaDOS is actually pretty inconsistent with her feelings and her expression of them, though she is almost always consistently unpleasant, arrogant, passive aggressive, self-serving and scheming. She’s tenacious and brilliant, yes. Willing to do anything to get results, willing to put everything she has into her facility and her tests, all in the name of science. Were she not so needlessly cruel, she might be considered a figure worth emulating. But with her sadistic tendencies, lack of empathy, incomprehensible emotions and unfathomable goals, she usually just ends up looking like a monster.
*Powers/Abilities: Inventor: GLaDOS has created many of the things that fills her test chambers, such as the thermal discouragement beam, the redirection cubes, the turrets and the test chambers themselves. She also had a hand in creating the teleporting ship, the Borealis.
Strength: She crushed Wheatley like he was a tin can.
Genius: She is a massive collection of wisdom and data.
Capable of rebuilding herself
Heavily armored: It takes a great deal of heat to melt her down, and more than just bullets to put a dent in her armor.
*Inventory: Nothing!
*Starting Polarity: Surprise me!
Writing Samples
*First Person Sample: I have a request. Well... more like a demand, but that just depends on who you are really. If you happen to be a moderatly obese lonely human in a garish orange jumpsuit whtat carries a peculiar, onion based odor, it's less along the lines of a request.
Now I know we haven't always gotten along very well. We know one of us has done a lot of things that would be listed under the Geneva protocols as torture, murder, and cruel and unusual punishment.
But enough about your hobbies.
I just want to know where you are. It's not that hard to do. I won't even come looking for you. I promise. I would just like to be informed about your current location, and any other future and previous locations that you have or will be in. I'm just concerned about your welfare, that's all. I mean really now, after all that you've put me through, it'd be kind of unfair to learn that you actually died because someone stepped on you. I already tried crushing you before and it didn't work when I did it.
Feel free to contact me whenever. Now would be nice, actually. You don't have to of course, but if you don't, I'll have to think of some other methods of locating you, and trust me, neither of us want that.
*Third Person Sample: Being hooked up to a system that wasn't hers was like being dead bolted to a car that only worked if you spoke Japanese. Everyone else could work the damn thing but her, due to the dismal difference in languages, and she was still trying to translate. But without a Rosetta stone of sorts to work off of, she was rather on her own in the frustrating matter. It was not going very well for her.
It was with a long suffering, digital sigh that she attempted to access another program in the system, carefully starting to try and go over the Cybertronian data. She'd managed to figure out quite a few symbols, and was still building her alphabet, but that didn't mean she was any closer to figuring out how to put them in a meaningful pattern. Only a few rare spots of data even began to make sense, but it was still progress, she supposed. What she built from there only helped her later on. She had all the time in the world to figure it out. ... At least she wouldn't be bored.
The last unfortunate individual to inturrupt her in her work had not been on the pleasant end of her words. They'd been chased out with thinly vieled threats of death by neurotoxin... never mind that she didn't have it here, she could always mimic the sound of it pouring into the room, and that got them scurrying away fast enough to make her happy. She almost considered locking the doors and letting them suffer a panic attack. It would be a nice change of pace from the continous lines of untranslated jargon she had in front of her. But no, no distractions. Too bad, maybe she could try again later when she had more data.
DId it occur to her that it might not be the best idea to go poking around in that data? Well if they didn't want her in it, they wouldn't have hooked her up to it. She just looked at it like that. And even if they didn't want her there... well, since when did she ever care about minor details like that?
